Meet Your Trusted Partners at Blank Children’s Hospital
Every day, patients and their loved ones turn to Blank Children’s Hospital, seeking comfort and healing. At the UnityPoint Health – Des Moines Foundation, we are deeply honored to join hands with you to ensure exceptional care and support remains close to home and is available when patients need it most.
We invite you to meet your dedicated partners in giving: the members of the Blank Children's Hospital Fundraising Team, the UnityPoint Health – Des Moines Foundation Team and the Des Moines Foundation Board of Directors. We look forward to working with you to explore meaningful ways to support the causes close to your heart, bringing hope and healing to kids in our community.
Our work begins with our vision:
Improving the health of our communities through philanthropy, service and volunteerism.
This vision fuels our mission:
To develop community and financial resources necessary to support UnityPoint Health – Des Moines in providing premiere quality health care for the communities we serve, now and into the future.
Your support allows Blank Children’s to offer resources, programs, support, and so much more. Whether it’s having one of our Child Life specialists walk with you through the journey offering play and education or having an extended stay with specialized care in our pediatric intensive care unit, Blank Children’s strives to continue making advanced, individualized and family-centered care our top priority.
As a leader, Blank Children’s Hospital has great capacity, and even greater potential to shape the future of pediatric care in Iowa. With your support, our teams are able to rise to new opportunities and meet challenges head on, keeping the well-being of our patients and our team members at the forefront.
Your support makes this possible, thank you.
Philanthropy is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life. To assure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public, and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the not-for-profit organizations and causes they are asked to support, we declare that all donors have these rights:
- To be informed of the organization's mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.
- To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organization's governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgment in its stewardship responsibilities.
- To have access to the organization's most recent financial statements.
- To be assured their gifts will be used for the purposes for which they were given.
- To receive appropriate acknowledgment and recognition.
- To be assured that information about their donation is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.
- To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature.
- To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organization or hired solicitors.
- To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists that an organization may intend to share.
- To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.
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Your generosity gives hope and healing to patients and families. Discover how your giving makes a difference to Blank Children's Hospital and to all of UnityPoint Health – Des Moines.
Blank Children's Hospital Fundraising Team
Our team is here to help you find ways of giving through the UnityPoint Health – Des Moines Foundation that are unique and meaningful to you. We're eager to connect with you, hear your story and discuss opportunities to partner in supporting Blank Children’s Hospital patients, families, caregivers and our community. Click the arrows below to learn more about each of our team members!
Meet the esteemed UnityPoint Health Des Moines – Foundation Board of Directors.